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BAY RIDGE – Police have arrested and charged the MTA bus driver wanted for exposing himself to young girls in Bay Ridge last week. Matthew Wohlfahrt, 28, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child, public lewdness and grand larceny, police said. Last Monday, while driving a gray minivan, Wohlfahrt
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State Sen. Mart Golden at the Dyker Heights Civic Association debate against Andrew Gounardes. (Photo: Kadia Goba/Bklyner)DYKER HEIGHTS — This week State Sen. Marty Golden spoke out about the crash that led to the hospitalization of a 74-year-old woman in 2005. During a heated debate on Tuesday, at the
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The audience at a raucous debate between candidates running for state Assembly and Senatorial seats in Southern District. (Photo: Kadia Goba/Bklyner)DYKER HEIGHTS — Southern Brooklyn residents lead with Child Victims Act at the heated debate between State Sen. Marty Golden and Andrew Gounardes Tuesday in Dyker Heights. The Dyker
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Photo: The Brannan CampaignBAY RIDGE — City Councilman Justin Brannan announced on Friday funding for a new 3rd Avenue Business Improvement District (BID). Brannan will award a $37,000 Neighborhood Development Grant Initiative to the Bay Ridge Merchants of Third Avenue, who for the past decade have voluntarily helped provide a
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Site of Solidarity Space, a new community center coming to Bay Ridge. (Photo: Kadia Goba/Bklyner)BAY RIDGE – Former State Senate candidate Ross Barkan announced Wednesday that he’s turning his campaign office into a much-needed community center in Bay Ridge. Named Solidarity Space, it is located at 307 82nd
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BAY RIDGE – Mallory McMahon has waited more than 200 days for a sit-down with her local state senator. First, she called the Southern Brooklyn office several times before scribing an email of disappointment to other local officials. When that didn’t work she alerted the press. That was in February,
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Photo Credit: Avi GlicksteinSPONSORED – For a variety of reasons, getting to the grocery store on a weekly or even bi-weekly basis can be hard. In my case, with two kids under 5, a freelance work-life to maintain, a spouse who works full-time, and grocery stores nearby that don’t always
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Photo: Courtesy of Andrew Gounardes for State SenateBENSONHURST — Gov. Cuomo visited Brooklyn on Tuesday to endorse the Democratic senatorial candidate Andrew Gounardes, in what seemed more like a presidential campaign rally. Dozens packed into the Stars and Stripes Democratic Club to rally for Gounardes and witness a rare Southern Brooklyn
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GOWANUS – A 42-year-old man wanted for a shooting in an Upstate New York hospital and an armed robbery in Brooklyn was captured behind the Whole Foods at 3rd Avenue and 3rd Street in Gowanus on Monday. > Joshua Stuart — the man who fired shots at police on 9/28 &
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BAY RIDGE – Before they face off in the Nov. 6 primary, the candidates for Southern Brooklyn seats are slated to go head-to-head tomorrow, Wednesday at the Bay Ridge Inter-Agency Council for Aging at the Ft. Hamilton Senior Center (9941 Fort Hamilton Pkwy), between 9 am and noon. The forum will
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(Photo by Rachel Silberstein/Corner Media)After nearly 50 years, a spelling mistake in the name of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is finally getting fixed, as Governor Cuomo signed a bill yesterday to add a second “z” to the iconic Brooklyn to Staten Island span. “The Verrazzano Bridge is a vital